Research Fellowships in Social Sciences from the Center for Advanced Studies in Croatia

The Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka is pleased to announce its annual Call for Fellowships for Autumn/Winter 2021 that will begin by October 1, 2021. Fellows are expected to spend a total of four weeks (split into two 2-week residencies) during their fellowship on the island of Cres at the Moise Palace, a Renaissance palace managed by the University of Rijeka. The Moise Palace serves as a research retreat; a regional hub for the advancement of social science, humanities, art, and interdisciplinary research; and a space of engagement and exchange with local communities.

Research Areas:

CAS SEE will take into account excellent proposals that are not strictly related to the main topics.

CAS SEE encourages candidates to focus particularly on two thematic foci:

Engaged Democracy – New Ways of Participation and Contestation:

This thematic focus invites researchers to apply with projects broadly related to

• design, development, and implementation of open, deliberative, participatory, and radical democratic tools, institutions, and systems.
• comparative analysis of contentious politics in the European semi-periphery.
• exploring the intersection between the social and the political field and the nexus between parties and movements.
• mapping and researching preconditions for local initiatives and bottom-up solidary practices.

Variations of Illiberalism – Dangers of Authoritarianism – Resilience of Democracy:

This thematic focus invites researchers to apply with projects broadly related to

• research streams on illiberalism and authoritarianism and their logic, mechanisms, and tools.
• empirical research and comparative studies on illiberalism in Southeast Europe, Europe, and around the world.
• interdisciplinary case studies of the rise of illiberalism and democratic reversal.
• research of resilience of democracy.

Fellows’ Responsibilities During the Fellowship:

• One open-access mini digital/hybrid/physical event related to the theme of the granted fellowship. Flexible in the form, these events will have to engage representatives of the academic community, civil society, social movements, and preferentially media and business community. Each event should have output in the form of a short two-page overview of the theme and conclusions aimed at the public.
• At least one op-ed related to the theme of the fellowship that will be distributed through web channels of CAS SEE and its partners and donors (Erste Stiftung Voices, Science for Society, European Western Balkans, Balkan Insight, etc.)
• Digital/hybrid/physical fellowship seminar and retreats participation (regular CAS SEE seminars).
• Participation in the events with prominent scholars organized by CAS SEE

About the CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE (CAS – SEE):

CAS – SEE is an organizational unit of the University of Rijeka in Croatia that specialized in the social sciences and humanities. Designed as a regional hub for high-level academic research, the Center aims to stimulate public discourses on topics with high societal relevance for the region and Europe. The vision of the Center is to promote freedom of research and to ensure the necessary prerequisites for innovative, intellectual, and scientific development. The Center strives to strengthen the transnational and regional scientific cooperation on a range of socially pressing issues with relevance for the Humanistic and Social Sciences.

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